Well, as we speak I’m both in and blogging about Pam Patterson’s performance work which includes the artists from the festival: Nayeon Yang, Gavin Krastin, Soufia Bensaid, and as well as some visiting artists/participants: Ester Scott MacKay, Beau Coleman and Angela Skaley.

At first I felt kind of sad that I wasn’t performing with them although I am kind of performing with them (I’m sitting at the table typing this, but they’ve all left me about 10 minutes ago for the video area of the room) but it all seems good right now. I took a photo of them throwing a stack of images that represented themselves in the centre of the table. That was the beginning of the performance. (inserted 6 am Day 7)

Performance by Pam Patterson Photo: Irene Loughlin

I’m struck by how the performance is somewhat slowly paced but I’m having a hard time keeping up. The viewers are sitting against the wall on benches, at the north wall of the gallery. I wonder why they don’t come over here.

Now the artists are taking from a huge pile of bricks, and they are stacking the bricks by each artist’s pre-stationed, open umbrella. Audio has started of rain and there’s old film footage of a man running by a brick wall. Beau, Gavin and Ester cast shadows of various lengths into the video projection. Some of the stacked bricks are also shadowed in the projection. They’ve picked up their umbrellas and are now walking around the space. Another brick in the wall by Pink Floyd is playing and each of them have a different action with the brick. Nayeon seems to be scrubbing the floor with her brick. Beau is rubbing two bricks together. Pam is slowly lifting a brick to the ceiling then down to the ground. I haven’t caught the rest (although they all had their individual actions) because now they have started throwing the bricks.

hey teacher leave them kids alone

Perhaps a reoccuring theme as earlier this morning we spoke of research-based practice. But I still have to organize the notes from this morning, so today’s posts are not created in a linear fashion. I hope you don’t mind.

Well, this turns out to be quite a clever piece. Nayeon is dragging her umbrella full of bricks. Several of the umbrellas have been deconstructed into their basic form.

Well I wish I had time to post the photos right now but I don’t I’ll do it later. It does seem like general chaos now. Should Pam really be holding Gavin up to the ceiling? I don’t think that’s so good for her body. Oh now Beau is helping her. They are doing it! He’s hanging the umbrellas off the grid, which is pretty high up since Latitude has high ceilings.

There seems to be a lull where not much is going on. That’s great maybe I can post a photo. Oh wait, Gavin is throwing a brick into the corner. Now Beau is going to. Soufia just jumped for an umbrella. This seems to be the destruction phase of the performance.

Oh they are all sitting down now. Thats my cue. I’m supposed to turn the light off or something. I think I’ll make them wait. They all construct a personal symbol as they stand behind their chairs (generally with their hands), something that represents them but I can’t catch it. now they sat down and are ripping up their paper. gavin just threw some afrgAT ME. its interfering with my typingg. damn itsannoying. noow i can’t ssew the screen. see the screen. i should take a picture. oh well. seems like the piece is over i think perhaps?